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Psyblast · 11-24-2011, 10:27 PM

Conference shakeup in college football
College football's landscape is turned on its head headed into 2012

WALNUT CREEK, CA - The first "super conference" has been formed. And now some of college football's most notable conferences bear numbers that don't represent their membership.

The Big Ten, just as last year, has 12 teams. The Big 12, just as last year, has ten, having replaced the outgoing Texas A&M and Missouri with TCU and West Virginia.

And the biggest of them all: the Pac-12 now has 16 teams.

The rumored blockbuster expansion that was being explored by the Pac-12 shot callers from conference headquarters in Walnut Creek, California has come to pass, as the conference has added Boise State, BYU, Nevada, and San Diego State as full members, with their football programs ready for competition immediately, beginning in the upcoming 2012 season.

BYU and Boise will join Stanford, Cal, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, and Washington State in the North Division of the conference, while SDSU and Nevada will join USC, UCLA, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Arizona State in the South. Additionally, the Pac-12 has ditched the poorly-received mandate that the team will the better record will host the Pac-12 Championship Game. Instead, the possibility of rotating the title game between different sites has been suggested, and the Rose Bowl in Pasadena has been selected for the 2012 game.

Elsewhere in the college football world, Syracuse and Pitt jump from the Big East to the ACC, with the Orange entering the Atlantic Division and the Panthers entering the Coastal. As previously mentioned, TCU and West Virginia join the Big 12, as Texas A&M moves to the SEC West and Missouri moves to the SEC East. The gutted Big East tried its best to stop the bleeding, adding Air Force, Houston, Navy, SMU and Central Florida. They've been allowed to keep their automatic BCS bid, but it's reportedly on very shaky ground, and a lackluster season on the field by the conference could very well result in the Big East being frozen out.

11-24-2011, 10:27 PM	#72
Psyblast 2023 National Champions OVR: 43 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: OS Midwest Office Posts: 42,509	Re: Stanford Cardinal (NCAA 12) Conference shakeup in college football College football's landscape is turned on its head headed into 2012 WALNUT CREEK, CA - The first "super conference" has been formed. And now some of college football's most notable conferences bear numbers that don't represent their membership. The Big Ten, just as last year, has 12 teams. The Big 12, just as last year, has ten, having replaced the outgoing Texas A&M and Missouri with TCU and West Virginia. And the biggest of them all: the Pac-12 now has 16 teams. The rumored blockbuster expansion that was being explored by the Pac-12 shot callers from conference headquarters in Walnut Creek, California has come to pass, as the conference has added Boise State, BYU, Nevada, and San Diego State as full members, with their football programs ready for competition immediately, beginning in the upcoming 2012 season. BYU and Boise will join Stanford, Cal, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, and Washington State in the North Division of the conference, while SDSU and Nevada will join USC, UCLA, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Arizona State in the South. Additionally, the Pac-12 has ditched the poorly-received mandate that the team will the better record will host the Pac-12 Championship Game. Instead, the possibility of rotating the title game between different sites has been suggested, and the Rose Bowl in Pasadena has been selected for the 2012 game. Elsewhere in the college football world, Syracuse and Pitt jump from the Big East to the ACC, with the Orange entering the Atlantic Division and the Panthers entering the Coastal. As previously mentioned, TCU and West Virginia join the Big 12, as Texas A&M moves to the SEC West and Missouri moves to the SEC East. The gutted Big East tried its best to stop the bleeding, adding Air Force, Houston, Navy, SMU and Central Florida. They've been allowed to keep their automatic BCS bid, but it's reportedly on very shaky ground, and a lackluster season on the field by the conference could very well result in the Big East being frozen out.